How to Find a Real Estate Agent...
Key Issues to Consider

When selling your house it is important that you find a real estate agent or realtor who will reduce the hassle and make the process of selling your home a smooth one.

This step would make selling your house less stressful and less complicated.

There are generally two types of agency differences:

• the first being the "traditional" type agency under a franchise, and
• secondly the "service styled" agency which is revolutionizing and currently the most up to date.

Marketing Your Property

In many ways the search to find a real estate agent is based on appeal. What is also important to know however, is that most agents are trained in two major components, firstly, how or where to best market your property.

Attracting the largest pool of prospective buyers to your property will be based on your financial and promotional resources as well as those marketing recommendations made by the real estate agents.

There are also various media based marketing options available to agents such as, the internet, newspapers, magazines, brochures, signs, photography and is available to all estate agencies. The agent will deal with any enquiries and handle price and terms negotiations between buyers and seller.

The Fee Structure

A major key point would be the realtor fee that is payable upon the success of the agent meeting your requirements from a sale of your property. Traditional franchised agencies are structured to seek approximately 3 to 6 percent of the end sale price of a property. This could easily be in the tens of thousands of dollars.

Alternately, you could choose the latest type and truly "worldwide brand and marketing system" of the "service styled" real estate agency, which generally don't pay any franchise fees, and are then able to pass on those savings to property sellers.

This can provide a similar or even a better result with a "fair fee" policy to all sellers. This is a "Flat Fee" for any property and at any value!

Attending an Open House

You may want to try and find a real estate agent by attending an open house run by an agency. Here however, prospective sellers can be easily confused in their attempt on seeing how an agent tries to sell another property - The agents are generally trained to sift out new sellers as new business from those whom attend, by a questioning process and obtaining contact details to pursue later.

The No Frills Real Estate team ensures agents have current certification or licensing in place for the state or area where you are selling your home or property and check for professional affiliations. Estate agents who belong to a professional association will follow codes of ethics that will mean that the home seller gets a quality of service too.

The next most important factor when you find a real estate agent is how much it will cost you to sell your home. Many people set a sale price for their property only to find that when the agency fees are deducted they end up losing money on the sale. Don't let that happen to you.

Check the Small Print...

When it's time to find an agent, read the small print on the agency contract to see exactly what you will have to pay. Agents' commissions vary widely and you don't want any nasty surprises. You only want the best real estate agents at the best price, right?

The good news is that this new worldwide shift, on how much you pay an agent to sell your property, now you can enjoy the major advantage over nearly all other real estate agents by enlisting the services on a flat fee basis, charging a commission well under $3,500.

Find a flat fee real estate agent in your area so that you keep most of the sale proceeds when you sell your home.

Selling? Let No Frills Real Estate sell your home and ensure you keep most of your profit where it should be - in your pocket. Register as a seller today to receive our expert assistance in this all-important transaction!

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